A Salvadoran Holy Family looking for shelter. I don’t remember buying this but it was a nice surprise when I found it while cleaning this week. #Advent

I’m going to make this my 2026 goal

BALTIMORE, Md. – Following the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services pause on the Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery Program, World Relief issued the following statement, attributed to Myal Greene, president and CEO: “The perpetrator in these horrific attacks should face justice under the law — but it’s unjust to block the legal immigration processes of tens of thousands of people who have absolutely nothing to do with this offense, except that they happened to have applied for the same type of visa. This is the latest instance of the administration leveraging an isolated evil action to advance its goal of dramatically reducing legal immigration. In doing so, it is circumventing Congress, harming our national economy and penalizing law-abiding individuals who have waited patiently abroad in one of the limited lines available to immigrate lawfully under the law.”

INBOX: World Relief, an evangelical Christian organization, comes out against the pausing of the Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery Program, which the Trump admin froze after it was learned that the Brown University/MIT shooting suspect (a Portuguese national) reportedly entered the country that way.

For sister who can’t see, this sculpture of Our Lady of #Guadalupe has allowed her to “see” the beloved image via touch and “with the heart.” www.globalsistersreport.org/sister-who-c...

At Washington conference, attorneys address an unsettling new era on immigration Panelists at the 22nd Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference painted a picture of migrants consumed by fear and a legal community seeking to defend them, but suffering from a lack of resources.

Via @rhinaguidos.bsky.social in NCR - At Washington conference, attorneys address an unsettling new era on immigration. "We gather today in unprecedented times."
#immigration #law #Catholic #migrants
www.globalsistersreport.org/migration/wa...

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago's beloved chaplain, dies at 106 Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the beloved chaplain for Loyola Chicago's men's basketball team, has died at 106. The university announced her death on Thursday night.

apnews.com/article/sist... Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago's beloved chaplain, dies at 106

DC archbishop, sisters denounce assault of migrants at hands of US government "We are witnessing a comprehensive governmental assault designed to produce fear and terror among millions of men and women," Washington Cardinal Robert McElroy said in a Sept. 28 homily.

Cardinal Robert McElroy wasted no time pointing out that this year's World Day for Migrants and Refugees is not like the others. “We are confronting…an unprecedented assault upon millions of immigrant men and women and families in our midst, he said. www.globalsistersreport.org/migration/dc...

At #goalkeepers25 event, Bill Gates said “it is tragic that we see vaccine skepticism,” says danger, too, is that other countries will follow. Says worries over vaccines are unfounded.

"The Gospel is addressed to everyone, and it doesn't condemn people, classes, conditions, or categories, but rather idolatries, such as the idolatry of wealth that produces injustice [and] insensitivity to the cry of those who suffer." #PopeFrancis #Hope

“We are in a moral crisis,” @RickWarren said, imploring different sectors to work together to help with vast humanitarian crises facing different parts of the world.

In NYC today for #Goalkeepers2025 where faith leaders, His Highness Khalifa Muhammad Sanusi II, Emir of Kano, and Rick Warren talk about the need for different sectors to work together as the world will see a projected 5 million child deaths that could have been prevented.

A giant in the church in Central America, #Jesuit Fr “Chema” Tojeira died this morning in Guatemala, his work and life too extensive for this space. R.I.P.

At DC’s Union Station this morning on poster for National Book Fest

Miami priest on religious worker visa denied entry and looks like it took Miami archbishop @ThomasWenski to get him get back in. #immigration #Catholic

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OH on bus at Dupont “ohmygod , they have chicken nuggets and caviar. I need to take myself there today.”

A lot of folks want to claim the new pope as one of their own. But more than a nationality, consecrated life and the charism of his Augustinian order, just as they shaped Francis as a Jesuit, have also shaped the new pope, say folks who know him www.globalsistersreport.org/religious-li...

I started out in the colonnade but it’s always better to be among the people of God. A joyful celebration today for #popeleoxiv and his first #reginacoeli prayer

This evening in Rome, the one group that says it’s the only marginalized group Pope Francis did not open a dialogue with, @ordainwomen.bsky.social, prayed for the #conclave at the #jesuit parish known as Caravita. #womensordination #catholic

Conclave roundup: Lies and rumors about cardinals abound ahead of conclave Brian Burch, nominated by Donald Trump to become the next ambassador to the Holy See, tied to fake news about the health of Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

Lies and rumors about cardinals abound ahead of conclave. The biggest target seems to be frontrunner Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin. Via @rhinaguidos.bsky.social in NCR …
#conclave #Catholic #Vatican
www.ncronline.org/vatican/conc...

Two days before #conclave

Before Mass at his titular church in Rome, I asked Cardinal Tobin whether he had anything to say of #Trump image as #pope. “It’s not worth commenting on” he said

Catholic outrage grows over 'Pope Trump' image on official White House media At least one U.S. bishop said President Donald Trump needs to apologize and even his closest prelate in the church, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, said it was “not good.”

Via @rhinaguidos.bsky.social in NCR - Catholic outrage grows over 'Pope Trump' image. The New York State Catholic Conference said there is “nothing clever or funny about this image, Mr. President. Do not mock us.”
#Trump #conclave #Catholic
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I’m always the reporter among the masses and saw pope Francis in the popemobile in Panama, Cuba and Rome. This made me so sad at the end, to see the vehicle that carried his coffin and know this is done.

A man looks out into the plaza outside of the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome April 26, 2025 above a sign that says “Thank you, Francis.” Thousands filled the perimeter near the basilica before the pontiff’s burial there.

An Argentine and Guatemalans living in Rome showed up to say a final goodbye to Pope Francis whom they consider a friend to the country’s migrant community. But they also expressed worries about the next pope to come.

Sister, Catholics join in Holy Week pleas to free men deported to El Salvador prison Dominican Sr. Carol Gilbert joined Catholics and members of various faiths for a Holy Week vigil April 14 in the park in front of the White House, to support the family of deported Maryland resident K...

Sr. Carol Gilbert said there wasn't a better place this year than in front of the White House to illustrate #HolyWeek readings, about the injustice that visited an innocent man, one wrongfully imprisoned at the hands of the powerful. #Abrego www.globalsistersreport.org/social-justi...

Protesters outside the Heritage Foundation to women leaving the building: “I hope you’ll be laughing like that in hell, ladies, cuz that’s where you’re going.” DC so tense right now.

La voz del #papafrancisco desde el hospital ❤️